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...shock since the Crimson second team of John Leibacher, William Bacon, and Jack Lawrence with a total of 60 jumps between its members defeated a number of highly favored opponents, in particular the first team, a 600 jump unit. The first unit includes Nickolas Soutter, Bob Thompson, and Dave Wigner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Parachute Team Scores National Jumping Victory | 5/6/1963 | See Source »

Fermi let the reaction run on for 28 minutes, then ordered it stopped. Hungarian-born Physicist Eugene Wigner brought out a bottle of Chianti. Fermi sent out for paper cups. Nobody offered a toast-the moment was too solemn for that. Wrote Physicist Samuel K. Allison, a top Fermi assistant, in a recent article: "All of us in the laboratory knew that with the advent of the chain reaction the world would never be the same again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: After 20 Years: More Hopes Than Fears | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...Seitz and Princeton's Eugene P. Wigner devised a method for calculating the forces that bind atoms together in a metal, an application of new theory to solid-state physics. Later, Seitz wrote The Modern Theory of Solids, the first comprehensive survey of solid-state physics, and made significant contribution to the development of such solid-state devices as transistors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Something to Offer | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...level policymakers who boss Oak Ridge may have come to some such decision. One sign: 35 students from universities and industrial corporations were at large last week in the tightly guarded Clinton Laboratories, learning innermost secrets from Director E. P. Wigner. Strict security rules still gag this "College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spreading the Know-How | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

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